I've mounted a USB in /etc/fstab:
UUID=xxxx-xxxx /mnt/someFolder auto users,uid=...
I want to save important files to this partition, but I want to have a backup on my normal filesystem in case the ...

I've recently installed a fresh copy of CentOS 6.4 and I was going to install OpenVZ on it however on the install instructions it said that it is advised to make a separate EXT4 partition for the VMs. ...

When I installed Ubuntu, I had a partitions with the windows OS installed, but now I've made some changes, I've erased Windows, created two new partitions in the storage ocuppied by windows before, ...

If a rootdir is mounted by encfs to a mount point, I can see the mount point by "mount" command or from the /proc/mounts.
However, if I can get the mount point, but I don't know which rootdir I have ...

I have an external HDD. It's portable, so I plug it in all over the place. Needless to say, these different places have different passwd files and uids. The files are mine and I need to access them ...

I have a server with samba shares and 2 HDs mounted that I use for backup. I have some symbolic links that work well between these 2 hard drives.
When I mount the drives with gvfs (samba) I can't use ...

Yesterday I installed an SSD as my new primary drive, and installed Fedora 20 on to it running cinnamon-desktop. I set a 1.5GB partition on my old drive, which was my data partition on the old setup, ...

I have a filesystem on flash using jffs2. I would like to mount this filesystem read-only, except for a single folder that I would like to be writable.
Is this possible without resorting to something ...

I have a iscsi disk 2TB large. I make backup of that disk every week. The backup script copies the image of the whole iscsi disk into a file on my NFS. Unfortunately, it does not copy the image in one ...

I trying to merge my separate /home partition with my / partition in linux mint 13.
I was told to umount /home, mount it on a different location and copy the contents to the /home directory on the / ...

Followed this guide on how to set up a shared folder between a KVM Host(Ubuntu 12.04) and Guest (Solaris 10 Sparc). On the last part of the it requires you to mount the shared folder and typed in this ...

I'm working on a embedded linux system based on busybox. Sometimes a USB device which is physically removed from the post is still displayed in mount, df or /proc/mounts. If I reattach the device, it ...

As shown below, I have /etc/init.mountall.conf, but /var/log/upstart has no mountall.log, and, more to the point, my non-root file system from /etc/fstab does not mount at boot. Mounts fine with mount ...

I currently have FreeBSD version FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE. Installed using a ZFS root. I'm attempting to mount a MBR partitioned drive but I can't get the partition nodes, /dev/ada4p1, etc. The partitions ...

I'm having trouble trying to mount a filesystem. Basically, if I mount /dev/sdc1, it works perfectly. But if I mount /dev/sdc with a byte offset, it fails. The filesystem is HFS+ (formatted using an ...

I've gota strange problem.
Since a previous failure from one of my hard drive, I had to replace one of my 4 hdd running in RAIDZ.
But since I changed this disk, the last partition of my disk appear ...

My aim is to perform file operations on my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (older edition) using Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS 32-bit. This does not work out of the box as I plugged my device and saw myself. In order ...

Some time ago I installed 12.04 from windows xp on a separate "linux" partition via wubi. this partition was allocated 50 GB. my problem now is that obviously the root directory does not have access ...

After installation mount manger software, upon restarting ubuntu won't boot up . It hangs on boot splash screen and doesn't move further. I have duel boot running in this computer so, I can boot and ...

A have a root file system (file system - image containinf folder structure and content) on a flash drive. The flash drive uses UBI as the underlying file system file system - the way the data blocks ...

I was recently told by another developer that whilst diagnosing a server issue (our application could not write logs due to insufficient disk space) he was able to view remaining disk space on what he ...